Gone Girl (album)

1978 studio album by Johnny Cash

Gone Girl is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1978. It features the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet song "No Expectations", the original "It Comes and Goes" and Rodney Crowell's "A Song for the Life", as well as a version of Kenny Rogers' famous single "The Gambler", released just a month before Gone Girl. Three singles from the album, "Gone Girl", "I Will Rock and Roll with You" and "It'll Be Her", were released, but did not reach the country chart's top 20.^[1]

Critical reception

In 1981, The Boston Globe wrote that the album "promised much (a rockabilly recollection of the Sun days, a cover of the Stones' 'No Expectations') but Cash seemed uncomfortable with the material and the goods weren't delivered."^[3]

Track listing

Personnel

• Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar
• Marshall Grant – bass
• W.S. Holland – drums
• Bob Wootton – electric guitar
• Jimmy Capps, Tommy Allsup – acoustic guitar
• Jack Clement – rhythm guitar
• Earl Poole Ball – piano
• Jerry Hensley – electric and acoustic guitar
• Jack Hale, Bob Lewin – trumpet
• Jo-El Sonnier – concertina, harmonica
• Terry Jacks – guitar
• The Carter Family, Jan Howard, the Jordanaires, Rosanne Cash – backing vocals
• The Shelly Kurland Strings – strings
• Bill Justis – string arrangements on "Gone Girl", "The Diplomat", "It'll Be Her" and "A Sing for the Life"

Technical

• Produced by Larry Butler
• Billy Sherrill, Charlie Bradley, Charlie Bragg, Jerry Watson – engineer
• Virginia Team – art direction
• Norman Seeff – photography

Charts

Singles - Billboard (United States)

References

1. Hilburn, Robert (2013-10-31). Johnny Cash: The Life. Orion. ISBN 978-0-297-86658-9.
2. "Gone Girl Review by Jim Worbois". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
3. Flanagan, Bill (21 Jan 1981). "Rockabilly Blues". Calendar. The Boston Globe. p. 1.

External links

• Luma Electronic entry on Gone Girl